Does anyone keep up with the news here?
Read this to start.
I absolutely detest Facebook. The sell out nature of that organization has been obvious from the get go. Are you guys aware of the shadow files they store that are a record of not only Facebook users but anyone who happens to get listed in a user account of a Facebook user. If someone you know uploads their list of contacts from Outlook then Facebook takes your name and creates a profile on you even though you have never had any contact with Facebook or given them any permission to access your data. They store your phone numbers, addresses, friends, posts on other sites, cookie tracking data, and a whole lot of invasive and private information. Facebook is insidious and because of that people are leaving it in droves.
I never thought it was a good idea to share every single thought with tens of millions of people many of which hate what I think. I see many of you have never been the victim of cyber stalking. I'm talking, "I'm coming to your house to kill you" type stuff. Well Facebook tells people like that where you live, who your family members are and who your friends are. What can possibly be good about that?
My wife joined Facebook despite my repeated warnings that she would eventually regret it. Well now she regrets it big time. Sure you can keep up with your old friends. So can the government, big businesses, political parties, extremist groups, terrorist groups, etc. etc. etc.. I learned growing up that it's best to not broadcast your business to strangers. Must be my hillbilly upbringing.
I had people stalking me on local BBS's (remember Fidonet?) long before the internet became popular. Why? Because I wasn't an America hating liberal and I didn't think it was cool to worship school mass killers. I also didn't like it that my family was accused of sleeping their way into highly desirably positions in high school. Particularly I had several family members become part of a national powerhouse cheerleading squad that won numerous national titles. When some mass murder worshiping jerk said they had to sleep with people to get those positions I took great exception to it. For my trouble my life was threatened and that wasn't even the only time.
Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to broadcast your deepest thoughts to a world full of nutcases isn't thinking right. The best thing about the net is being anonymous. I don't want Facebook tracking me and then selling my info to anyone and everyone not to mention allowing it to be hacked (which
just happened last week)
Facebook is actually losing members by the millions. And the NRA should have never asked it's users to fall into the "free" advertising trap FB has set for millions of businesses and organizations. Nothing is free in this world. The price is our freedom and our privacy. Does the NRA not know that many businesses search records on the net to weed out people they think are undesirable for their political views especially when it comes to job applications? I'll decide when my name gets used, not the NRA. Using my money to lure people into that trap is terribly wrong IMO. I give them plenty of money. They should not be using it to sell out people's personal business.
Facebook will go the way of ICQ and a dozen other methods of keeping in contact. They all get greedy in the end and they change their TOS and bury the dirty parts in 50 pages of small print. You can't trust them. Not even a little bit. They WILL sell you out eventually. They always do. I've been on computer networks for almost 25 years. I've seen this happen so often it isn't even funny and it certainly isn't a surprise.
